TorrentSpy blocks access to US web users

Popular torrent file search engine TorrentSpy has now implemented a ban on users visiting from USA.

TorrentSpy’s lawyer, Ira Rothken said that they had to take this step as a result of a Federal court order which required the search firm to start logging users’ IP addresses and activity.

The web service added that they had rather block access for US visitors than breach its privacy policy.

They were taken to courts by the Motion Picture Association of America and were asked by the courts to start logging all the activities of users on their sites.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) had this to say on this ruling: “This unprecedented ruling has implications well beyond the file-sharing context. Giving litigants the power to rewrite their opponents’ privacy policies poses a risk to all internet users.”

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